Take a look through the presentations below and click any to download them. We will be adding to this page and our tall building fires page regularly in future to make it a useful reference point for those in the industry.
Presentations from the 2024 Conference, Excel London, UK
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- Tall Buildings Conference Programme 2024 - Download
Day 1 - Monday, December 2nd 2024
- 10:10 Keynote 1 – Kate Lamble: Grenfell: Lessons from the public inquiry work - Download
- 10:50 Presentation 1 – Jim Glockling: Green & Living walls as Cladding: Introducing new joint guidance on managing risk - Download
- 11:20 Presentation 2 – Ian Doncaster (SCA) - Construction of Smoke Shafts - Download
- 11:50 Presentation 3 – Nick Atkinson, Ambar Kelly – Riser Shaft Fire Safety - Download
- 12:20 Presentation 4 – HRB Fire Doors – Where Are We? Fiona Critchley Gerda Security - Download
- 12:50 CTec Presentation - Download
- Chairperson: Amanda Long CEO of Construction Product Information Limited - Download
- 14:00 Keynote 2 – Ben Levy, High Rise Lead NFCC - Download
- 14:40 Presentation 5 – Capt. Eng. Mohamed Alhanaee Abu Dhabi Civil Defence Authority
- 15:10 Presentation 6 – Michael Spearpoint: HRB Evacuation Research - Download
- 15:40 Presentation 7 – Julie Butterworth & Andy Fry, TPAS: Tenant Engagement - Download
Presentations from the 2024 Conference, Indianapolis, US
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- Tall Buildings Conference Programme 2024 - Download
Day 1 - Monday, April 15th 2024
- Strategic and Tactical Considerations for Large Scale Incidents - Frank Leeb - Download
- Escape Hoods in Tall Buildings - Suzanne Johnson - Download
- If These Walls Could Talk - Jack Murphy - Download
- When Tall Buildings Come to Town - Randall W. Hanifen - Download
- Repurposing Vacant Tall Office Buildings and Spaces - Jerry Tracy - Download
- The World of Pressure Regulating Devices - Terin Hopkins - Download
- Pressurization Systems Innovations for Safe Evacuation in High Rise Buildings - Radek Sikorski - Download
Day 2 - Tuesday, April 16th 2024
- Firestop The Hidden Liability and Five Steps to Reduce Them - Sharron Halpert - Download
- Fire Testing Facade Systems and Materials - Sreenivas-Narayanan - Download
- Who Has Seen The Wind? - J. Peter McBride - Download
- The Case for a Second Stair - Russ Timpson - Download
- When Buildings Fail Us Lessons Learned Captain - Jimmy Davis - Download
- Calm the Chaos!Highrise Fires - Anthony Kastros - Download
Day 3 - Wednesday, April 17th 2024
- Tactical Decision Making High Rise Firefighting - Gerard Mann - Download
- Firefighting Smoke Control - Dr Michael Reick - Download
- Virtual Reality Firefighter Training for Firefighting in High Rise Buildings - Mark (Ted) O'Brien - Download
- Tablet Command - William Pigeon & Dave Franklin - Download
Presentations from the 2023 Conference
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- Tall Buildings Conference Brochure 2023, Day 1 - Download
- Tall Buildings Conference Brochure 2023, Day 2 - Download
- Tall Buildings Conference Brochure 2023, Day 3 - Download
Day 1 - High Rise Construction Fire Safety
- Facilites for FF during Construction - Steve Lakin - Download
- Fire Safety during Load out - Lendlease - Download
- HSE BSR High Rise Regulation Update- Colin Blatchford - Download
- JCOP V10 HSG 168 Update May 2023 - Mark Cooper - Download
- Tackling the BSA with a digital Golden Thread - Steve Rudge - Download
- NFPA 241 and the US Experience - Ray O'Brocki - Download
- Lithium Ion Batteries on Construction Sites - Matthew Pearce & Andrew Lack - Download
- Insurance View of JCOP V10 - Dave Dexter - Download
Day 2 - Green Fire Safety Issues
- Green Fire Safety Conf Opening Remarks - Peter Wilkinson - Download
- Photo Voltaic Panels Fire Safety - PVStop - Download
- Lithium Ion Batteries Fire Safety Research - Francesco Restuccia - Download
- LI Battery Cloud Explosions and Testing - Paul Christensen - Download
- Ventilation High Rise Solutions - SMAY - Download
- The Insurers View of Green Fire Safety Issues - Mark Redding - Download
- The Conflict of Sustainability and Fire Safety in Facades - Simon Bate - Download
- Tall Timber Construction and Fire Safety - Jim Glockling - Download
- Green Wall Fire Safety and Tallbuildings - Ed Galea - Download
Day 3 - Crisis Management in High Rise Complex Buildings
- Horizon Scanning for Crisis Events - Matt Moon - Download
- Ethical Crisis Leadership - David Lowe - Download
- Resilience for High Rise and Complex Buildings - Chris Phillips - Download
- Martyns Law Assessment of Bill - Risk to Resolution - Download
Presentations from the 2022 Conference
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- Tall Buildings Conference Brochure 2022 - Download
Day 1 - Fire Engineering
- Decade of Action for Fire Safety Project - Brian Meacham - Download
- Facade Fire Safety Product Selection - Sreenivas Narayanan, Siderise - Download
- Fire Safety in Very Tall Buildings - Chris Jelenewicz, SFPE - Download
- Research into Facade Fires - Prof. G. Rein, Imperial College - Download
- Tall Timber and Insurance - Jim Glocking, FPA - Download
- The Relationship between Building Design and Fire Spread - Frances Maria Peacock - Download
- Understanding Fire Safety Compliance of Facades - Abhishek Chhabra, Bell Wright - Download
- US Tall Building FS Post 9_11 - Beth Tubbs, IBC - Download
- Using BIM in Fire Safety Engineering - Fredrik Hiort, Symetri - Download
Day 2 - Fire Risk Management
- Building Safety Alliance - Anthony Taylor, Resolve Risk - Download
- Digital Golden Thread - Chris Chennell, Hydrock - Download
- Evaluation of High Rise Fire Safety Data in the UK - Hodkinson-Murphy, Uni of Leeds - Download
- Fire Detection and Alarm in High Residential - Andy Scott, CTec - Download
- Green Walls and Facades - Alistair Law, Vertical Meadow - Download
- Mobilising Fire Safety in 22 Bishopsgate - Annie Panteli and Peter Bicknell - Download
- Safe Compliant Residential Smoke Control High Rise, Ian Doncaster - Download
- Waste management in High Rise, Nigel Deacon - Download
Day 3 - Firefighting
- Escape Hoods in Tall Buildings - Suzanne Johnson, Draeger - Download
- Establishing a High Rise Firefighting programme in Melbourne - Gerard Mann - Download
- High Rise Dynamic Firefighting - Brent Brooks - Download
- PEEPs in High-rise Buildings - Elspeth Grant, AAA - Download
- Smoke Control in High Rise when Firefighting - Dr. Michael Reick - Download
- Wind Driven Fires in High Rise - Peter McBride - Download
Presentations from the 2020 Conference
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- Tall Timber Buildings - The US Experience - Download
- The Role of Building and Fire Inspectors During Construction - The US Perspective - Download
Construction Fire Safety
- Construction Site Evacuation Safety Evacuation Strategies for Tall Construction Sites, Professor Ed Galea, Director FSEG, University of Greenwich, UK - Download
- Fire Safety in Construction, Sandra Tomlinson, HSE - Download
- High-Rise Fire & Life Safety During Major Redevelopment at the Willis Tower - Download
- Insurance Aspects of Construction Fire Safety - Download
Crisis Management in Tall Buildings
- Extending Security to the Airspace, Amit Samani - Download
- Virtual and Mixed Reality Training Environments for First Responders, Professor Ed Galea, Director FSEG, University of Greenwich, UK - Download
- Practical Pandemic Planning, Shane McMahon - Download
- Security & Risk Mindedness in Corporate Organisations, Stuart Osborne QPM MSc - Download
- Crisis Management in Tall Buildings Major Water Damage, Sam Dawson, BELFOR UK - Download
High Rise Firefighting
- Tactics for Dealing With Electric Car Fires in High Rise and/or Covered Car Parks, Adam Course - Download
- High Rise Building Safety Regime, Mark Hardingham QFSM - Download
- Smoke Controlin High Rise Fires, Prof. Dr. Ing. Michael Reick - Download
- High Rise Firefighting Conference, Gary Oakford - Download
- Tactics for Dealing with External Ascending Wall Fires, Mark Reilly - Download
Presentations from the 2019 Conference
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- A Concept Map for Fire Safety Management - Dr. Kathryn O'Brien - Download
- A Glogal Unified Fire Safety Approach - Gary Strong, RICS - Download
- Building Safety Presentation June 2019 Neil O'Connor - Download
- Carl Petterson - FIRE SAFETY IN HIGH-RISE TIMBER BUILDINGS - Download
- Cladding Toxicity - Dr Jim Glockling FPA - Download
- Defining Combustibility - MC Hui RED - Download
- Fire Safety Engineering Design for High Rise Building - Download
- High Rise Construction Site Eveacuation Research - Dr. Ed Galea - Download
- High Rise Firefighting in Santiago, Chile - Sergio Hasbun - Download
- High Rise Firefighting in Toronto - Brent Brooks - Download
- High Rise Firefighting, RICE System - Paul Grimwood, Kent FRS - Download
- Hoarding - Petra Duvanna, LFB - Download
- Hyde Housing Fire Safety Task Force - Brent O'Halloran - Download
- Impact of Grenfell on US Codes and Standards - Beth Tubbs - Download
- Making Compliance Digital - Matt Hodges-Long - Download
- Procuring Fire Safety for High Rise Social Housing - Mathew Baxter - Download
- Tall Building Fire Database - Michael Spearpoint, OFR - Download
- Tall Buildings Safety Management Information Process - Anthony Taylor - Download
- Tall Timber Buildings - Carl Petterson, RED - Download
- The Future of Building Control - Geoff Wilkinson - Download
- UK National Alerting Scheme - Nigel Brown - Download
- Water Mist for Tall Building Use - Gary Howe, Zurich - Download
Presentations from the 2018 Conference
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- Arup Presentation on Tall Building Fire Engineering - Download
- Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) on "The Past, Present and Future of the European Skyscraper - Download
- London Fire Brigade Presentation on Tall Building Firefighting - Download
- Tall Building Insurance Issues - Download
Presentations from the 2017 Conference
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- ETICS - Download
- Considerations for elevator evacuation KONE - Download
- Doug Evans - Exterior Facade Fires Handout B&W - Download
- Frank Leeb Tall Building - FDNY - Download
- Groner - Occupant Movement Design and Management - Download
- Michael Schroeder High-Rise Conference 2017 - Download
- Russ Timpson New Realities - Download
Presentations from the 2016 Conference
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- A Forensic Examination of Tall Building Facade Fires - Download
- Fighting Full Height Fires in Tall Buildings - Mark Fishlock - Download
- Stayput in High Rise Residential - Download
- Tall Building Passive Fire Issues - Download
- Tall Building Design Fires Eoin O'Loughlin - Download
- Use of Lifts Elevators for Evacuation - KONE - Download
